The Animal World Full of Inspiration (with fun collective noun references)

Hey amazing souls who helped bring our project to life!

We just wanted to take a moment to say a big thank you for all your support! We started hiring illustrators out of pocket as the idea for this book came about and once we had enough to keep the project moving forward, we launched on Backerkit!

Now, thanks to you, we’re so excited to finish hiring our talented team and bring this beautiful book to life!
We can’t wait to share the illustrations with you as we receive them in real time!

Here’s what’s currently in the works:
* Parade of Elephants
* Party of Peacocks
* Snuggle of Sloths (oh my cuteness!!)
* Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
* School of Fish
* Mischief or Storytelling of Ravens (we're still deciding since “storytelling” is a bit hard to verify as a group name, but "mischief" could add a fun twist to the story!)
* Maybe a Flamboyance of Flamingos (with disco balls, of course!)

We hope to have all the illustrations done by the end of this month and, fingers crossed, everything ready to send to print by the end of November. We’ll keep you posted on shipping timelines!

Also, keep an eye out for a survey in the next few weeks. Let us know the name you'd like next to the firefly on the end sheets of the book, or feel free to message us. Hopefully, we can include this in the survey when it’s ready.

And here is our newest illustration: Pack of dogs! xo I love these sweet little faces!  Illustrated by the talened: https://www.instagram.com/sara_atashhoosh/

Thanks again for being amazing! We are so grateful for your support and promise to deliver a beautiful book!

Best,
Leigha & Heather

Thank you so much for helping us bring this project to life!!! We are so excited to celebrate the launch of this book and the support it takes to make it happen.
 
 A huge thank you to all of you for believing in our project and journey.  We can't wait to spoil you with this beautiful book!  We will keep you updated as we get our final illustrations in and pair them with our wonderful words!  We hope to send this to print by the end of the year and start our distribution the first quarter of 2025!  
 We wish you a wonderful weekend ahead, and again we are sparkling with gratitude with all of your support helping us fund this beautiful book.  
 
 Best,
 Leigha &Heather

We are so excited to press go on this project and finish getting this printer ready and our finial illustrations back from our artists!  We are seriously so excited about bringing this project! to life!!

Last chance to support while our book launch is live!!! Thank you so much for all that have supported me past, present, and future!!! A few more hours to go ...  you guys are going to love this book!!! And we promise to spoil all of our backers as much as possible.   



We can't wait to showcase these talented artists in one book!!! We love our team of talent and we are pretty sure collective artist projects should be more of a thing!  We hope to start a trend where real artists get paid over AI! We love our artists! And we know you will too! 

We would love your support making this the best possible live book launch.  

Thank you -
Leigha & Heather

We are overjoyed with gratitude for all the support and love from all our backers!!! Heather and I are excited to announce that regardless of how far we stretch past our goal, we will make the pledge to you to update all paperbacks to hardcovers regardless of our finalized goal!  Sometimes you have to invest in yourself, and we think this book is way too beautiful not to bring to life its full potential! 


We can't wait to spoil you!  And as we continue to get additional art from our artists (helping us complete this book, we will continue to keep you updated) And if we make it to our strech goal, we will announce our next project and start working on hiring illustrators!  

We love the group effort it took to make this book come to life and the group support it took to help us make our first print run!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  

We can't wait to complete this project and spoil all of our backers!  

We have every ounce of belief that we’re going to reach our goal... Maybe even today?! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Seriously, every single one of you has helped bring this book to life, and we are overflowing with gratitude! After all, nobody wants to fail during a book launch on such a public platform!

But we’re thrilled to share some good news! Give yourself a virtual high-five, because thanks to your support, we can finish hiring illustrators and make this book the best it can be! We're still pushing, and if we hit our stretch goal, we'll be able to hire the first artist for the third book in the collection and announce what’s coming next!

Your support means the world to us, and we can't wait to celebrate by spoiling you as much as possible. Please feel free to comment here, email, or message us and let us know the names of loved ones you'd like to see next to a firefly in our Animal World book's endsheets. We want to make this extra special for you!

We're so excited to get this finished, printed, and delivered to you all. Thank you again for your early support—it means everything! Currently just. $377 away!!  LET'S get to goal TODAY! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts